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this is gold 🤣. the political clarity is unmatched. i need the daily digest.

submitted 7 days ago • 604 comments

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 235 comments

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Because of the BBC and the RW mainstream media. They say what they like; they do what they like; they make life Hell for political opponents- and everyone in power is so terrified of them that they’re unchallenged. So unless this totally changes- we’re doomed.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

MADDOW: “What is this country going to allow him to do? This is an attempted authoritarian overthrow of the 🇺🇸 Constitution and Government… imposition of a dictatorial regime. The strength of the movement against him is what will determine our fate as a country.”

submitted 13 days ago • 544 comments

In 1963, 24 years after the Wizard of Oz premiered, Ray Bolger came on The Judy Garland show and performed, If I only Had A Brain. Judy's eyes the entire time... Happy Birthday Jude

submitted 13 days ago • 88 comments

Emma Monk's excellent substack, as heard on @mrjamesob.bsky.social monkdebunks.substack.com/p/reform-uks...

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

If your response to this video is, “That’s what I voted for”— Fuck you. Fuck you very much. You’re heartless.

submitted 15 days ago • 1698 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 15 days ago • 895 comments

ICE forced to barricade themselves inside the federal building in Los Angeles until LAPD could intervene and rescue them from the brave crowds standing up to the regime.

submitted 17 days ago • 271 comments

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submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Billions in foreign real estate deals. $320M in crypto trading fees — and a private dinner with top buyers of his meme coin. $28M from Amazon for a Melania documentary. The list goes on... We're so numb to Trump profiting off the presidency that hardly anyone notices. Hello?

submitted 21 days ago • 181 comments

A hidden measure in the Republican budget bill would crown Trump king https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/27/a-hidden-measure-in-the-republican-budget-bill-would-crown-trump-king

submitted 22 days ago • 149 comments

No, this is not “Russia’s Pearl Harbour” as some over-excited folks are saying. But when a €500 drone can take out a multi-million aircraft, something has changed in war. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

The amount of Russian soldiers in this picture is how many are killed or wounded every three days

submitted 43 days ago • 808 comments

Maximus, UK arm of a US contractor, that tests whether some people should receive disability benefits reported 23% hike in pre-tax profits, from £23.6m to £29.1m. It has £800m govt contracts. US CEO got $10.2m paypacket. Public services increasingly privatised. We pay more, get less in return.

submitted 25 days ago • 23 comments

Trump is planning a military parade in DC on June 14, but the biggest story of that day will be the actions we take everywhere else. Let's rally across the country on Flag Day to reject strongman politics and corruption.

submitted 31 days ago • 8 comments

The 2025 UN Water Report on glacier melt is alarming! It confirms my work on #ClimateColoniality & #WaterJustice: vulnerable communities bear the brunt. We need to decolonize water & climate governance to protect these vital "water towers." Read the report: www.unesco.org/reports/wwdr... #geo 🌏🌱🗻🌊

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

Oh what a surprise - bring them back!

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

“Inevitably, Brexiteers didn’t even wait for the deal to be signed before they screamed betrayal… “The Brexit movement has become less a political ideology as a toddler’s tantrum: they have no idea what they want, knowing only that it’s not this.” www.theneweuropean.co.uk/james-ball-i...

submitted 35 days ago • 12 comments

A ‘groundbreaking’ Essex project aims to plant a 100 mile tree corridor to connect isolated ‘orphan’ woodlands together for the benefit of wildlife. By @davidj2024.bsky.social

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Withdraw the loan, let them go bankrupt and then #Renationalise

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

submitted 41 days ago • 85 comments

Pandering to Reform over care workers is grubby and cheap. Care homes are reliant on overseas staff. Without them, many will need to close their doors, leaving families and communities to suffer the consequences. Read, like, share, subscribe below. 👇 substack.com/@nicolakelly...

submitted 43 days ago • 26 comments

Letting unis go bust will be popular with voters right up until the economic and societal affects hit them square in the face. This is exactly why outsourcing politics to focus groups and those who cannot adjust from campaigning to governing is disastrous.

submitted 44 days ago • 19 comments

We are not under invasion. There is no justification for suspending our constitutional rights. Every single American should speak out against this, loudly and forcefully.

submitted 45 days ago • 1997 comments

Rizz in the gorge in today's @theguardian.com country diary by @calmandfearless.bsky.social. #countrydiary #naturewriting

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Brexit was a bad idea even before Trump, Covid, Russia's war on Ukraine, and Trump 2.0. With those body blows in the picture, it has become utter madness to persevere with Brexit.

submitted 45 days ago • 9 comments

I watched this last night & found it incredibly moving. A real reminder of why European unity is vital This excellent short 25 min film by @europeanmovement.co.uk starts with a 99yr old veteran in UK then heads to Ukraine to listen to stories from a range of Ukrainian citizens. They are inspiring 🇺🇦

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp... Remember - the arts earns the UK millions! We’re GOOD at the arts. They’re vital for our mental health - they’re the escape route into another reality, as is nature/the countryside. Pls sign and share. It seems we have to fight for everything these days 🤬

submitted 47 days ago • 8 comments

All this, and more. I would channel Mark Carney. I would reform Hse of Lords. I would restrict foreign funding of pol parties. I would devolve powers from Westminster. I would launch a constitutional commission to review how to strengthen governance. I would try to tell the truth, incl hard truths.

submitted 47 days ago • 24 comments

Good thing he decorated the Oval Office with all that tacky gold shit from China before the tariffs kicked in.

submitted 47 days ago • 430 comments

They took everything from young people for a decade or more. Youth services and centres shut, Sure Start slashed. Tuition fees raised increasing tax on working young people. There was about a tenth of the interest from anyone that’s worried about pensioners on fuel payments as their support GOES UP.

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

Bravo @ledbydonkeys.org 👏👏

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

And you may find yourself living in a thatched-roof hut And you may find yourself living in the Holy Roman Empire And you may find yourself negotiating with your lords And you may find yourself in a beautiful hall, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

submitted 48 days ago • 53 comments

Please sign 👇

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Read every beautiful and poignant word. ‘Please God, don’t let us betray them. We must not forget and we must never let it happen again.’ Sheila Hancock

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Page One must have been crowded. So NYT puts it on Page 13. 🤡 @schooley.bsky.social

submitted 49 days ago • 1010 comments

Love how the economy is becoming a Russian nesting doll of tech companies built to solve the problems created by other tech companies www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

submitted 49 days ago • 213 comments

“They don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have 5.”

submitted 49 days ago • 1208 comments

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

submitted 49 days ago • 952 comments

Immigration is not the problem it’s now widely believed to be. Brexit is much more of a problem than it’s reported to be. So how can govt achieve growth, fix public svcs and deal with the cost of living if fear of Reform means it won’t be honest with us about these 2 elephants in the room? It can’t.

submitted 50 days ago • 112 comments

If true, depressing and stupid, negatively impacting on Labour's growth focus & screwing one of UK's few strategic advantages & success stories, when overseas students aren't even the focus of anti-immigration ire - which won't be deflected by this.

submitted 50 days ago • 6 comments

I need you lads to understand that Europe has an average birth rate of about 1.4 No charismatic politician bothered to tell you how fucked that makes us. But as we get older, we need more care, more GP appointments… Without immigration we will have no pensions very quick.

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submitted 50 days ago • 154 comments

Reform UK says it’ll ‘reset’ Britain inch by inch. But to what? Smog, slums and Section 28? Their nostalgic fantasy hides a dangerous truth. 👉 Read The Bear's clear-eyed breakdown of what’s really on offer:

submitted 50 days ago • 22 comments

Analysis of the English local elections by Sir John Curtice: “support for Reform averaged 43% in wards where more than half of adults have few, if any, educational qualifications. In contrast, it polled just 19% where more than two in five have a degree.”

submitted 50 days ago • 101 comments

Trump says he ‘doesn’t rule out’ military force to control Greenland. What a psycho. Denmark is a founding member of NATO. Other NATO members must come to Denmark's aid. Trump will embolden dictators. More countries will go nuclear, seek alliances with countries other than the US.

submitted 50 days ago • 4 comments

Labour strategy teams rolls out of bed, takes a big sip of coffee, sees the US plan for tariffs on non-US produced movies and immediately thinks, ‘We should crack down on immigration’.

submitted 50 days ago • 9 comments